EBAY reachability issues

Thu Jul 31 17:30:05 UTC 2014

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:23:54AM +0900, Paul S. wrote:
> Appears to be loading just fine from here in Sg.
> On Jul 31, 2014 11:21 PM, "Mike A" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:38:13PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote:
> > > We've been seeing some issues with getting to Ebay this morning, only a
> > very select few of their GSLB sites in DNS seem to be responding (to us at
> > least)...
> > >
> > > Connecting to www.ebay.com|66.135.210.181|:80... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > >
> > > Connecting to www.ebay.com|66.211.181.161|:80... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response...timed out
> > >
> > > Connecting to www.ebay.com|66.211.181.181|:80... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response...timed out
> > >
> > > Tried reaching out to them but can't contact anyone if anyone has a
> > contact there please forward.
> >
> > isitdownrightnow.com says that ebay isn't answering and hasn't been for
> > close to 14 hours.

The outage appears to be provider-specific, according to comments in that
particular thread at isitdownrightnow. And eBay appears to be flapping; it was
up for a short time, and now has been down for 21+ minutes. Glad it's not my
site.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin 